Geevor Clayton Loco

Last Saturday I was  waiting at Perranwell for a train to Falmouth, I just missed the first train back and watched it leave towards Falmouth - then half an hour later another train arrived from Truro. Usually the second train would have come from Falmouth, gone on to Truro then gone back to Falmouth, was this replacing a train that had left the branch? I can’t get my head around it 

7 hours ago, Tankerman said:

 

You ebben got worry about that my 'andsome, they up country people do actually ate um as fast as Ginsters mak um.

Giss on pard, nothing could survive mor’n one of ‘ey “ginsters” - be like eatin’ the burry up bleddy Poldice! Your not gowen’ to bamfoozle me that eazily boy!

22 hours ago, Ramblin Rich said:

I have decided to set up a social media site to allow fans of second rate Cornish pasties to share images.

I shall call it Ginstergram.

Will it have a location thingy on it, so we can track and trace and cull the ginsters? 

2 hours ago, BoD said:

Is this a post?

Or a pillar?

A hipster walks into a pub, the barman asks “Why the long face?”

First the moderators came for the groan button

But I did not speak out

Because I did not use the groan button 

Then the moderators came for the sexist jokes

But I did not speak out

Because I did not tell sexist jokes

Then the moderators came for the racist jokes

But I did not speak out

Because I did not tell racist jokes

Then the moderators came for the religious jokes

But I did not speak out

Because I did not tell religious jokes

Now the moderators come for my jokes

And there is no one left

To speak out for me

(I’m not saying racist, sexist or religious jokes are funny, it just went well with the poem)

 I got my friend’s kids a jigsaw for Christmas, wasn’t that lovely?

 I rung him up other day to ask if they enjoyed it.

”Dunno yet, they’re still in hospital having their fingers stuck back on!”

Where do you find a dog with no legs?

Where you left it.

Should I make a sodium joke? Na...

What do you say to a smelly nun?

Time to get out of that habit.

I like this bloke's use of a bike chain.

I think he's going to go places.

But he'll have to walk.

'coz I stole his bike.

How do you describe a pun you thought of yourself?

Home groan.

EUROPEAN PIPE SPECIFICATION

EC Directive 21-95-32275-EC-666

1. All pipes are to be made of a long hole surrounded by metal or plastic centred around the hole.

2. All pipes must be hollow throughout the entire length of the pipe - do not use holes of a different length to the pipe.

3. The ID (internal diameter) must not exceed the the OD (outside diameter), else the hole will be on the outside.

4. All pipes must be supplied empty, so that water, steam etc can be put in at a later date.

5. All pipes over 500ft (150m) in length, should be marked with the words "LONG PIPE" for ease of identification.

6. All pipes over 2 miles (3.20km) long must also be marked with "LONG PIPE" halfway along so the contractor does not have to walk the full length of the pipe to establish whether or not it is a long pipe.

7. All pipes over 6ft (1.83m) in diameter must have "LARGE PIPE" clearly written on it so the contractor does not mistake it for a small pipe.

8. All pipes must be specified under one of the following categories to prevent accidents:

a) A LEVEL pipe

b) An UPHILL pipe

c) A DOWNHILL pipe

This is to prevent water placed in an incorrect pipe from flowing the wrong way on a slope.

9. There are a large number of so called pipes on the market under the 3mm length threshold. These are classified as "WASHERS", and should be used accordingly.

10a. The joints between pipes carrying water, must be water tight. Those pipes carrying air need only be air tight.

10b. Directional joints should be classed as "LEFTHAND" "RIGHTHAND" "UP" or "DOWN" and clearly labelled as such to prevent the contractor from inadvertently laying the pipes so that they are going the wrong way.

I had two dates and pretended to guard one of them.

It was the date-a protection act.

INSTRUCTIONS ON FALLING DOWN STAIRS

Step 1

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Step 5

Step 9

Step 15

Step 22

Step 35

Floor

1 hour ago, Baby Deltic said:

I saw that happen once, but the trailer (minus boat) went in first and somehow the van jacknifed it and ended up on top of the trailer. It was low tide as well, and as the tide came up the whole lot dissapeared so they had to put warning buoys around it and wait till low tide the next day to pull it out!

On 17/11/2015 at 17:47, Father Dougal said:

This is based on a north Devon prototype, so it is kind of Cornish.

 

Turns out Nicola Sturgeon drives a McClaren.

Nokia are designing an electric car.

Apparently it will have predictive steering.  

On 15/03/2020 at 17:39, Andy Kirkham said:

 

I'd agree about the Q1, it was an "alternative" aesthetic deliberately contrived to make a point and should be judged on its own terms.

 

What I find most disturbing are what you might call "Frankenstein" locomotives that look as if they've been put together from ill-assorted spare parts. There seem to have been quite a few Irish examples such as

 

 

and...

 

 

The open ended bearings on the 4-4-0 look almost identical to the triang ones. Or is the loco in the picture just missing the end caps?  

Me: he died of natural causes.

Judge: no you pushed him off the roof.

Me: gravity is natural.

Judge: 

China must have a pretty good cricket team to take out half the world  with a single bat.

Thanks, that's very usefull.

I need a couple of smallish, short wheel base (oo gauge) 4 wheel motor bogies, and I was wondering if any one could tell me the rough dimensions of some of them (preferably cheapish ones). I was thinking maybe the rr Hornby Warship bogie would do but I kent find the dimensions of it. The Dapol/Hornby pug chassis dimensions would be usefull as well.

Thanks

GCL